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Decency Lost is a podcast for listeners who refuse to numb themselves to the moral collapse in American Politics. Hosted by Dick Smiley Jay, the show cuts through noise, spin, tribalism, and selective outrage to confront one simple truth: a democracy can not survive when its leaders and the country has abdicated decency.

Decency Lost in November 2024.

This podcast is one little clue on the map to finding it again.

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King Buffoon and I agree.

Republicans did this.

Hope in Paradise.

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Republicans did this.

Hope in Paradise.